The five southeastern states of the US, long known for their corruption within the so-called justice system, are notorious for gaming the system. Backwoods lawyers, Billy-Bob judges and Boss Hog type law enforcement personnel are all too common. After all, these are just human beings; who cares? As long as there is money to be made, there seems to be no shortage of individuals willing to profit from what has become nothing short of human trafficking for profits.

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Finding reasons to put people in prisons has become big business in the US. Beginning in the 1980’s, prisons began privatizing for profit, making that profit off the forced labor of prisoners who saw not one dime in return for their labor. John Ashcroft helped along the prisoner-for-profit program by handing down mandated prison term guidelines. The so-called justice system dutifully complied with federal mandates as money, and lots of it, began to flow from the exaggerated prison sentences. Wall Street began selling bonds on the labor of prisoners and the number of prisoners to foreign countries; bonds that were based on the length of time they could be guaranteed that prisoners would be held.

Now that corporations with the help of the federal government had successfully converted prisoners into commodities to be traded globally, prisons saw an almost immediate end to actual punishment as prisoner labor was now sold to profit the corporation. Because the corporations owning and running prisons have only one duty, to make a profit, it is not uncommon for these prisons to be understaffed and for security to be less than desirable to keep costs down. Medical treatment is in short supply.

Corporations have perpetuated a growth industry which must be profitable. To be profitable requires a continuously new population of prisoners sentenced to lengthy terms. In many cases these terms are drug related, or consist of other non-violent crime. With the extended sentences the prison population of the US has grown from 225,000 in the early 80’s to more than 2.5 million currently.

Prisoners now answer phones for corporations, make 36% of all appliances sold in the US, license plates, road construction, and various other jobs, all performed for the profits of the corporation. The corporations also collect from the states and federal governments while at the same time profiting from the contracting out of prison labor. The higher the prison population the greater the number of prisoner bonds sold on Wall Street. This is organized crime perpetuated by private corporations who treat the prisoners as commodities.

C.J.T.S. is a corporation dedicated to the tracking and coding of prisoners and provides the software to do it. Using this system and one called CUSIP:

“a nine digit number (called Ordnance Number) is issued for the Certificate of Stocks going internationally to ANNA (Lynn’s note: see link for ANNA which is in Brussels, Belgium at http://www.cusip.com ). These Securities are sold through the Commodity and Security Exchange. The bottom line is they are selling stocks in the prison system. The jails are referred to as Warehouses and the prisoners are called Goods”

From the moment a person is arrested for any reason, the prisoner cash register starts ringing. This can be for something as simple as a traffic ticket. The law enforcement department making the arrest assigns a pre-defined code to the charges being made. This code has a monetary value and the money starts rolling from this point on all the way through the system. Publicly traded prisoner stocks, took a tumble in 2008, but look as if they will rebound as the Obama Administration along with Senators McCain and Lieberman, and others such as Graham and Shumer devise plans to increase ever greater numbers of US citizens under the false flag of national security.

The five southeastern states of the US, long known for their corruption within the so-called justice system, are notorious for gaming the system. Backwoods lawyers, Billy-Bob judges and Boss Hog type law enforcement personnel are all too common. After all, these are just human beings; who cares? As long as there is money to be made, there seems to be no shortage of individuals willing to profit from what has become nothing short of human trafficking for profits.

Let’s say for instance you get prison time in Georgia but at the same time Alabama has a hold on you for a misdemeanor. You do your time in Georgia and get a parole date. Alabama puts a hold on you saying they intend to pick you up on your parole date. Only Alabama decides not to come until much later…say a few weeks to maybe a year later. What happens? The prisoner cash register continues to ring.

Georgia basically sells the prisoner to the private corporation for the duration of his sentence. During this time, the prisoner can be contracted out privately for labor either for the corporation or to a private enterprise. The prisoner makes no money. The corporation continues to collect from the state for each day they hold the prisoner beyond parole.

Alabama, who has no intentions of showing up any time soon, is still allowed to list that prisoner on their books as a result of the hold for the misdemeanor even though they have never actually taken custody of him/her. While this is going on, a private company most times, is hired to transport the prisoner from Georgia to Alabama. From the moment they are contracted until they physically pick the prisoner up and begin physically transporting him/her, they charge a daily rate for transport even though they have never actually picked the prisoner up. Again this can continue for weeks or a year or more and the prisoner has never actually gone anywhere except to work. It’s a real money maker for all concerned and it is human trafficking that is government sanctioned.

A well researched site concerning the profiteering resulting from imprisonment can be found at: Owners of the Prison Sytem in America which list several of the prime stockholders profiting from aggressive imprisonment:

While incarcerated, prisoners are not allowed to receive packages from the outside except for maybe some holidays. Personal needs items, such as toothpaste and deodorant must be purchased from the corporately owned prison store. As the prisoners are making no money for their labor, one has to wonder how this will be accomplished. For those who have family or friends who will send money to put on the books for the prisoner it is not such a big deal. But what about those that don’t? And, almost every prison system takes a percentage of the money sent to prisoners for “processing”. Anything for a buck and if no one objects to the parasitic system nothing is done to stop it.

Alabama and Louisiana are two of the worst states for mistreatment of prisoners, with Georgia coming in a close third. In 55 of Alabama’s counties, the sheriffs are allowed to keep any profits they can generate. This can be from contracting out prison labor to near starvation of prisoners and pocketing the profits which can reach levels in the hundreds of thousands. In Alabama, shortchanging the food supplies and keeping the change is not uncommon.

This is our so-called justice system. The system has been largely privatized and Wall Street is selling the labor of human beings as a commodity. Although there is no doubt that violent criminals should be incarcerated, it is estimated that 60% of those in the prison system are there for non-violent crimes and much of that are for crimes in which there was no victim: no injured party.

For us there seems to be a glaring issue with the state or federal government levying the charges, adjudicating the crime, mandating incarceration and the wholesale selling of human prisoners to private corporations and allowing them to profit from what is nothing less than human slavery.

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I have multiple editions of Black’s law……and the differences in definitions between the older and newer versions boggles the mind. Bouvier’s was dispensed with because it was far to explicit and did not leave much room for ambiguous interpretations or tampering. I have searched long and hard to find a copy of it for my library.

The issue here is the redefining of the “ward” as now being dead in the law. They are not referred to by name….but by case number or as “the unit”. As such, and now a commodity, they are bought, sold, traded to other states to fill agency quotas for funding. Their assets looted and stolen by the predatory guardians, attorney’s and “judges” and anyone else who can find an angle to access the estate. The “init” is required to pay all fees of any kind whatsoever out of their estate. Kind of like having to pay the executioner for sharpening his ax.

Bouvier’s Law Dictionary
1856 Edition
PERSON. This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons. In law, man and person are not exactly-synonymous terms. Any human being is a man, whether he be a member of society or not, whatever may be the rank he holds, or whatever may be his age, sex, &c. A person is a man considered according to the rank he holds in society, with all the rights to which the place he holds entitles him, and the duties which it imposes. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 137.
2. It is also used to denote a corporation which is an artificial person. 1 Bl. Com. 123; 4 Bing. 669; C. 33 Eng. C. L R. 488; Wooddes. Lect. 116; Bac. Us. 57; 1 Mod. 164.
3. But when the word “Persons” is spoken of in legislative acts, natural persons will be intended, unless something appear in the context to show that it applies to artificial persons. 1 Scam. R. 178.
4. Natural persons are divided into males, or men; and females or women. Men are capable of all kinds of engagements and functions, unless by reasons applying to particular individuals. Women cannot be appointed to any public office, nor perform any civil functions, except those which the law specially declares them capable of exercising. Civ. Code of Louis. art. 25.
5. They are also sometimes divided into free persons and slaves. Freemen are those who have preserved their natural liberty, that is to say, who have the right of doing what is not forbidden by the law. A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. Slaves are sometimes ranked not with persons but things. But sometimes they are considered as persons for example, a negro is in contemplation of law a person, so as to be capable of committing a riot in conjunction with white men. 1 Bay, 358. Vide Man.
6. Persons are also divided into citizens, (q. v.) and aliens, (q. v.) when viewed with regard to their political rights. When they are considered in relation to their civil rights, they are living or civilly dead; vide Civil Death; outlaws; and infamous persons.
7. Persons are divided into legitimates and bastards, when examined as to their rights by birth.
8. When viewed in their domestic relations, they are divided into parents and children; hushands and wives; guardians and wards; and masters and servants son, as it is understood in law, see 1 Toull. n. 168; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1890, note.
SOCIETY. A society is a number of persons united together by “mutual consent”, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.
What is UNDERSTANDING? Blacks law dictionary (stand under)
In the law of contracts. This is a loose and ambiguous term, unless it be accompanied by some expression to show that it constituted a meeting of the minds of parties upon something respecting which they intended to be bound. Camp v. Waring, 25 Conn. 529. But it may denote an informal agreement, or a concur- rence as to its terms. See Barkow v. Sanger, 47 Wis. 507, 3 N. W. 10.

I noted the starvation process in these corporate prisons. Readers might want to take note that the majority of Americans are still OUT of prison. WIth an actual depression going on as I type this, the old custom of Americans having three nutritious meals a day is in steep decline.

Some wag once said that people who have missed five consecutive meals are always ready to do bloody revolution against those who have deprived them of a simple meal.

This singular process might very well be the catalyst of a revolution, that the various Federal Government Agencies are confident they will “win”; but very well end up with selfsame authorities dangling at the end of a rope.

after all, bullets, after food and water, are the ultimate commodity. so people will not waste them on killing the wannabee Rulers of Planet Earth. nor on their willing minions. most especially not on the minions.

Pattie Berry,
The narrow issue is whether the sheriff and chief deputy have standing to appear in court. I doubt it, since the state is represented by the prosecutors.

Unfortunately, it is common for courts to have customary practices that are improper. It might be difficult to secure an attorney to challenge court practices when his livelihood depends on judicial favor.

From your description, it sounds like what you have is substantial evidence of public corruption. It sounds like they are advocating for longer sentences to make a profit. Even if their appearances in court were lawful, which I do not believe is the case, they would be acting corruptly by arguing on the basis of an obvious conflict of interest.

I strongly urge you to file a complaint with the public integrity section of the Department of Justice or directly with your local FBI office.

Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, an organization that has about 350,000 members spread across some 2,100 chapters. “But just like anybody else, we believe officers have a right to due process, and we want to safeguard them from any (unnecessary) investigations.”

This is an issue of the philosophy of government that I explored during the Iran Contra hearings.
Based on the principles of the balance of Liberty and Authority, that those who are acting under the color of authority must give up the rights of Liberty, not as private persons, but as duly constituted officers of law.

Authority is enumerated, the rights of liberty are not. To give authority the rights of liberty is to unbind the enumerations of that authority. If a person is acting in official capacity, then the rights of liberty do not apply to that capacity.

The government has no “right” to take the Fifth, regardless of the person in authority—that personhood is null and void under color of authority.

Oliver North did not have the right to take the 5th as per his actions as an officer of authority. Until such authority is stripped from the person in question, no legitimate rights are available. North attended those hearings in uniform and spoke as an officer of state, and at the some moment claimed protections of a private citizen. This is a flagrant oxymoron of both reason
and law.

Authority and Liberty are brightly delineated in the foundational political theory of the US. But this
is not so in what is euphemistically referred to as “practical politics”–which are in fact ultra vire.
Amerikans have become as naïve as little children. But they are not children, and naivete is not
innocence. They are jingoberries dangling from the ass of despotic government.

The question you ask “is it lega?” should be phrased, ‘is it lawful. Statutory ‘legality’ that is unlawful under the Constitution is null and void.

Larger questions must be raised and answered in this nation before a reckoning is to be had.

“Government” in Amerika Inc. is ultra vires [beyond law]. That which poses as “government” in DC and statehouses throughout the nation is nothng but a criminal syndicate that has squatted on this country for more than a century.

There is no hope in piece meal approach to the nations problems. The core issues must be addressed and redressed.

10 years ago i wanted to visit America today it is the last place on earth I would want to visit …enough said mainly because i cant believe Americans are so stupid to let what is happening to their nation

We were born as slaves. The Birth Certificate is really a Bond. When it matures and the Bankers can not collect up the slave, A lien is placed on the name. Note name in all upper case letters and it refers to a Corporation. The lien is then monetized and becomes what we use as money. No wonder the Bankers are getting Billions in bonuses this year. Note we are already slaves to the elite.

This nation is going to hell real fast. There is no other direction for America to go but to continue its slide downward to the bottom of the slag heap of history.
Might as well get the hell out when I can. You ain’t safe here anymore now that we’ve all become terrorist threats and extremists.
I had no idea how corrupt the so called criminal justice system was until reading this.
It truly is a criminal justice system. Only the criminals run the system.
America has become a madhouse.

Thank you PPJ Gazette and Marti Oakley for this inspiring article and references. Oh Yes, yes, yes – I’ve often ranted and raved about the hypothecating of prisoner bonds, and even shouted about the modern Triangular Slave Trade with the placing of bonds on the international market – now, your article and references will help open the doors, will hopefully let in the sun light, expose the Prison Slavocracy, and lead to a greater Emancipation from this peculiar institution.
I will place this article on my Facebook, on the FB Group “Prison Slavery Abolition United Front”, and FB Organization “Committee to Abolish Prison Slavery”. I hope we can become friends and fight this monster together.
Towards Abolition,
Lee Woodprisonslavery@yahoo.com

Please, if you know the answer to my question I would be so thankful. My son 33 years old is in jail awaiting trial in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, on a drug charge. My attorney said no other parish in Louisiana operates like this. The sheriff & chief deputy are allowed to sit in on the sentencing penalty phase. At times the assistant district attorney, judge, and lawyer have reached a plea deal in many cases, only to have sheriff & chief deputy to veto that plea and demand a longer sentence. Is that legal? Also for the sheriff to have a financial investments in the prison that he is demanding the longer sentences. it just seems unfair, but is it illegal?